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Stephen decided to go on a journey He took a bag of provisions And a map With a route marked out But from the outset It seemed to Steve That the places he visited Never quite matched the things on the map He would arrive at a city But the map suggested a smaller town Or a fork in the road But a crossroads was marked And as Steve traveled onwards It seemed to him That things were getting Further and further out of sync At the side of a lake Still and flat The map would show A tall mountain When he arrived at a hotel With spires and balconies The map read: “Military Installation” Steve decided to hire a car Perhaps if he could move faster He could catch up with things And correct the mismatch Of course the map Was no help at all When he tried to find A car hire place Steve got in And moved off at speed But if anything Things got worse The map showed A series of towns and cities But Steve just traveled on Through endless empty desert Here is a mountain Snow-capped and majestic But at the coordinates A flat plain and the sign for a church Here is a city Filled with glass skyscrapers But on the grid A rocky cove and a deserted peninsula As time went on Steve checked the map less frequently But at the same time He checked the landscape less as well He knew he couldn’t trust The map to make sense But Steve felt He couldn’t trust the landscape either Now Steve only travels at night All he can see Is the illuminated highway And the signs flashing past He disposed of the map A long long time ago And he chooses turnings By instinct alone He doesn’t bother To read the signs He doesn’t think They would help And he’s not even sure If he slowed down He would be able To read the signs at all
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Inside the sun Inside the sun We took the smallest thing As small as small can be We made it bigger We took the darkest thing As dark as dark can be We made it brighter Inside my room Inside the sun We took the sharpest thing Its edge so honed and bright We made it blunter We took the finest thing So elegant and graceful We made it cruder – Inside my town Inside the sun We found a quiet thing So quiet and small We filled it with noise We found a shaded place Hidden from sight We marked it out Inside my nation Inside the sun – Inside the sun Inside the sun The empty space We filled it up We filled it up The quiet place We filled it up We filled it up
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I got the call on Tuesday I went down to the docks To see the Voynich brothers Meatface and Gumby Gumby took me round to see the equipment It was dark in the heart of the warehouse There were sparks and arcs of electricity There were glass jars and large retorts In the biggest one, I could see Eric “He gave himself to science,” said Gumby I agreed but avoided Eric’s stare Meatface turned up and took over He led me to a large armchair High-backed, with leather and plump upholstery I ignored the wires emerging from the back Meatface indicated where I should sit I shuffled up I didn’t feel I could refuse Afterward, once I had stopped screaming And I was still enough that the restraints could be unbuckled I felt quite different Lighter, happier even I discovered I could transform the world around me I could turn paper into cheese And delicate electronic equipment into fishes I could even turn the fishes into buttons But only shirt buttons I decided to go home and reflect upon these things Perhaps now I could make a difference And people would take me seriously

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